On 01/19/2010 10:49 PM, William John Murray wrote:
Hello all,
Can anyone help me with a disk usage problem? I have a disk
partition of 65GB in LVM; df says:
/dev/dm-0 65570580 60494828 1744888 98% /
However, if I use either du or Baobab they reckon the directories in it
add up to 30Gb or so. As it is my root directory, and there are various
others it is a little difficult to get the total, so I booted under
liveUSB and saw exactly the same - 30Gb used, but 98% full.
So something is stealing half my disk. If I try to write more it is
out of space.
Any ideas how I get my space back? fsck reports the disk is clean.
As someone else said, have a look for ".*" files (files whose names
start with a dot). Also keep in mind that du and df look at "sparse"
files differently. df shows what's been allocated and du shows what's
actually used.
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